Re: [Synaptic-devel] Re: new (last?) testversion available (+ a patch)

[Michael Vogt]

On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 08:57:30AM +0300, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> Quoting Michael Vogt <address@hidden>:
> > thanks for your feedback and your support with the test-releases. I
> > put a last (I hope) version online at:
> > http://people.debian.org/~mvo/synaptic/testing/synaptic-0.44pre4.tar.gz
> > 
> > I tried to address most of the suggestions you had (while I'm afraid
> > not all made it into this release). The difference between the last
> > test-release and this one are improved glade interface files. 
> > Sebastian Heinlein was so kind to send me those. Thanks!
> > 
> > There are also updates to the translations, thanks to a lot to all of
> > the hard-working translators!
> > 
> > I'm busy on this weekend, so answering my mail will probably take
> > until monday.
> 
> Seems to work fine here on RH9. BTW I just noticed that synaptic doesn't 
> support
> apt-rpm's "rpm-dir" repositories (== a directory where you just drop packages
> and apt notices them without running update first and you don't need to 
> generate
> the repo with genbasedir). Not a big deal, that's a feature marked 
> experimental
> in apt-rpm and doesn't seem to be widely in use but attached is a patch to add
> support for that too. Feel free to postpone for next release, nobody missed it
> so far so chances are people will survive without it for one more release :)

The patch looks fine, so I applied it and it will be part of 0.44 :)
Thanks for testing and for the patch.
 
bye,
 Michael